M. K. Brown Explained

Birth Name:Mary K. Brown
Birth Place:Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality:American
Cartoonist:y
Art:y
Spouse:B. Kliban
Notable Works:Dr. N!Godatu
Aunt Mary's Kitchen

M. K. Brown is an American cartoonist and painter whose work has appeared in many publications, including National Lampoon (1972 - 1981),[1] Mother Jones, Wimmen's Comix, The New Yorker, Playboy, among others.[2] She has written several books, created animations for The Tracey Ullman Show, and was a contributing artist to the "comic jam" graphic novel The Narrative Corpse. She is also an accomplished painter with work in galleries and many private collections.

Lynda Barry, cartoonist of the comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, lists Brown one of her early influences.[3]

Personal life

M. K. Brown was born in Connecticut and she grew up in Darien, Connecticut and New Brunswick, Canada.[4] [5] She attended school at Silvermine Guild School of Art (now named Silvermine Guild Arts Center) in New Canaan, Connecticut with cartoonist, Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez.[6]

Brown was married to fellow cartoonist B. Kliban; together they had a daughter, Kalia who is a dancer[7] [8] and artist.[9] Since 1967, she has lived in Fairfax, California in Marin County. Brown was married to Gunard Solberg[10]

Dr. N!Godatu

Her animated series Dr. N!Godatu (with Julie Payne as Dr. Janice N!Godatu) debuted on April 5, 1987 on The Tracey Ullman Show, airing as the sole animated short for the first two weeks then alternating with Simpsons shorts for the rest of the first season (animated by the same Klasky Csupo team of Wesley Archer, David Silverman, & Bill Kopp).[11] Ullman show cast members Julie Kavner and Dan Castellaneta along with then-freelance voice actress Nancy Cartwright provided voices: Kavner as her receptionist Elaine, Cartwright in "Freeway" (as Pat, Dr. N!Godatu's friend who refuses to drive on freeways, through tunnels, or over bridges), and Castellaneta in "Blind Date" (as Dr. N!Godatu's date, Bill Wallhead) and "Fishtank" (as the fish tank repairmen). There were six shorts in all, each divided into four Acts. There were also two unreleased episodes (The Party and The Proposal).

Dr. N!Godatu (a character of Brown herself) is pronounced without a vowel sound preceding the N and a clicked G.

Episode synopsis[12]

Character list

National Lampoon magazine

M. K. Brown contributed various strips to National Lampoon magazine between 1972 until 1981; "Aunt Mary's Kitchen" featuring regularly from the early '70s into the early '80s, often in multi-page full color spreads. In 1983 Collier Books published the "Aunt Mary's Kitchen" cookbook of 140 recipes gathered by M. K. Brown.

"Aunt Mary's Kitchen"

Bibliography

Books authored by M. K. Brown

Illustrations by M. K. Brown

Comic strip anthologies

Filmography

YearTitleRoleTypeNetwork and/or productionNotes
1987The Tracey Ullman Show, "Dr. N!Godatu" Script, AnimationTelevisionFoxSeason 1, short animation vignettes.
1991Doug ScriptTelevisionNickelodeonACE Award nomination
1996–1998Things That Go Bump in The Night ScriptTelevisionDanger Productions, Greengrass Productions[14]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: M.K. Brown. Graphics Classics. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194231/http://www.graphicclassics.com/pgs/mkbrown.htm. 2016-03-03. 2019-12-18.
  2. Web site: Stranger Than Life: Cartoons and Comics 1970-2013 . Kirby. Robert. 2014. The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books Inc. en-US. 2019-12-19.
  3. Barry, Lynda. Blabber, Blabber, Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything (Drawn and Quarterly Comics and Graphic Novels 31 October 2011), p. 13, ; : "By the time I graduated from high school I knew about bitter and sweet, but thanks to cartoonists like M.K. Brown, Gahan Wilson, and Ed Subitzky I also knew about weird and rare and hilarious ways of changing one into the other. These three cartoonists taught me to watch the people around me and listen to how they talk and to write down what they say. But I learned the most by copying their drawings, and these three were especially good teachers."
  4. Web site: Make Way for Mary K. Brown. Brown. Rita Mae. November 1977. Mother Jones Magazine. 49. 2019-12-19.
  5. Web site: Review of STRANGER than LIFE by M.K. Brown. 2017-03-17. Readaholic Zone. M.K. Brown grew up in Darien, Connecticut and New Brunswick, Canada..
  6. Book: Rosenkranz, Patrick. Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975. Fantagraphics Books. 2002. 9781560974642. Seattle, WA. 39.
  7. Web site: Playford 2020 Brochure . www.nashvillecountrydancers.org.
  8. Web site: History | North Bay Country Dance Society.
  9. Web site: Lib at Large: Fairfax cartoonist M.K. Brown celebrated in 'Stranger than Life' book and show. 2015-01-04. Marin Independent Journal. en-US. 2019-12-19.
  10. Web site: GUNARD SOLBERG Obituary (2010) Marin Independent Journal. Legacy.com.
  11. Web site: Fox introduced the Bundys and "babyfaced" Johnny Depp 30 years ago today. Adams. Erik. 2017. AVClub News. en-us. 2019-12-19.
  12. http://benway.com/mkbrown/drn/index.html Dr. N!Godatu show info and episode transcripts
  13. http://www.gatesofheck.com/corpse/index.html Gates of Heck
  14. Book: Perlmutter, David. The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. 2018. 9781538103746. 99.

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